Based on some conversations with a fellow writer, I was told reading Raymond Carver was not worth my time. He ends stories too quickly, I was told. This collection of stories, Short Cuts, bears this out, but not in every tale.
“So Much Water So Close to Home" is perhaps the strongest work here. The plot is strange with both what is said and unsaid. The lingering sense of violence against women is both horrifying and befuddling.
This story, and those like it, are Carver at his best (is this an early story?) Other stories in the collection end abruptly, as my friend observed, and seem like unfinished sketches.
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